The Obama Infomercial! Don't miss it! For a limited time ONLY!!

I really don’t have time for this, but I just can’t help myself.

In case you missed the Obama Infomercial last night, let me give you a recap. Sob story, sob story… Obama will fix EVERYTHING! The only line that was missing was, “I’m Barack Obama and I’ll fix that country for $39.95!”

There was a sad story about an older couple that retired, but had some health problems and he had to go back to work. There was a sad story about a family where the dad worked at a factory and the factory cut back his work. There was the teacher who worked a second job. Then we heard about Obama growing up as a kid. How much his mom helped him, followed of course by the heart breaking tale of his mother’s death from cancer. Interlaced through all of this is Obama telling you that he is going to fix that problem.

According to Senator Obama, he is going to create 5 million new ‘green’ jobs that CAN’T be outsourced. Really? That’s wonderful. HOW? Has he already invented some tremendous new technology that is going to produce energy from thin air. Maybe there will be 5 million people harvesting air? I know it sounds great. If there was a way to make so much money that you could afford to employee 5 MILLION people… don’t you think there would be entrepreneurs and businesses JUMPING all over it?

He’s going to cut healthcare costs by $2500 per family. Really? HOW!? By getting hospitals to transfer all of their records to electronic format? Trust me, and I definitely know something about this. Transferring to an electronic system may eventually save money (mainly by cutting people who handle the paperwork), but it costs a lot of money up front and if it isn’t done right can be time and ‘expensive’ labor intensive. Even if it went seamlessly, it won’t save the average family $2500 per year (or $10 for that matter). And while we are talking about that, let’s just think about some numbers real quick. $2500 per family… hmm… let’s be conservative and say that there are 75 million families in the US. That’s $187.5 BILLION dollars that is somehow just going to VANISH from the healthcare industry and no one is going to miss it! In fact while he is at it, he is also going to GIVE healthcare to 47 million people that don’t have it (he doesn’t mention it, but about 15 million of those are illegal aliens). So just do a sanity check here. He’s going to save the American people $187.5 BILLION dollars, while giving you better healthcare and covering 47 million people that aren’t currently covered…. I’m pretty good at math, but Senator Obama must be a lot better than I am if he can make those numbers work.

Occasionally the video (which was HOLLYWOOD quality in its production) would cut away to a Democratic politician saying how great Obama is and how he is a once in a generation leader. Really? What has he done? The only things that they mentioned in the video last night were the times he ‘reached across the aisle’ by working with people like Senator Lugar to push for the containment of old solviet era nukes. Wow, sounds impressive. In fact that sounds like something that everyone would want. As a matter of fact they did! It was unanimously passed. Not because Obama wrote a great bill, because he didn’t write hardly ANYTHING. What they are talking about is an ‘add on’ to an existing bill that was written and passed in the 90s. After the USSR collapsed we passed legislation to allocate funds to help the solviets break down some of their nuclear arsenal so that it didn’t fall into dangerous disrepair, or worse, into the wrong hands. Obama “REACHED ACROSS THE AISLE” to add a couple of lines to the bill to expand the program! COME ON!!! This is ridiculous!! Then they went on to talk about how he had fought against some of the senior people and leadership, but gave NO specifics! BECAUSE THERE AREN’T ANY!!!! He hasn’t done ANYTHING of substance!!! Period. That’s why they have to be vague and fill a 30 minute spot with glurge and sob stories! They want you to think that this country is a horrible place! But somehow, when Obama becomes President EVERYTHING will be better. In an instant! It will be like the rapture, but you don’t have to go anywhere, the rapture will bring you to Obamaland!

Please.

Someone needs to take his medicine. He’s having delusions of EXTREME grandeur.


What you heard last night is the same thing he’s been doing all around the country for the last couple of years. He finds hard cases, and there will always be hard cases to point out, and he talks about them. He goes on about the hard questions and tough issues facing this country and then says that he will fix them. If you ask him how, he tells you how much money he is going to throw at it.

That’s a lot of money. Thrown pretty much EVERYWHERE.

Hmmm… where does that come from again?

I mean, he already said he is going to cut taxes on 95% of working Americans. Which means a good chunk of people that don’t pay taxes will get paychecks from the government… hmmm… that’s more money gone. He is going to increase all kinds of taxes on wealthy people and businesses, which historically speaking means LOWER REVENUE to the federal government, lower profits in businesses, cut backs, fewer jobs… How is this going to solve ANYTHING!?

The man has been running for president for almost two years. We have yet to really see any new, good, or even SUBSTANTIVE ideas.

This is a frightening election.

****Update: Just caught this AP (of all people) article that sheds some light on some of the shady aspects of the Informercial.

Obama the first Pro-Abortion President

Please read this article. Written by a professor at Princeton who is a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics. It’s a crushing blow to pro-lifers who have tried to justify a vote for Obama. I have listened to well intentioned and intelligent people try to argue in their own minds that the next president will have NO effect on abortion, but they couldn't be more wrong.

Here are some things that Obama has vowed to do to support and truly INCREASE abortion:

- Repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which according to NARAL has cut the number of abortions that ‘should’ have occurred in half because it cuts public funding for abortions where the mother’s life is not in danger and that don’t involve rape or incest. This one change alone could mean tens if not hundreds of thousands of additional abortions every year, funded with YOUR tax dollars.

- FOCA : Freedom Of Choice Act. Sounds good doesn’t it. Obama has pledged that he would sign FOCA, which would repeal all limitations on abortions through the entire 9 months of pregnancy.

In essence, FOCA would abolish virtually every existing state and federal
limitation on abortion, including parental consent and notification laws for
minors, state and federal funding restrictions on abortion, and conscience
protections for pro-life citizens working in the health-care
industry-protections against being forced to participate in the practice of
abortion or else lose their jobs. The pro-abortion National Organization for
Women has proclaimed with approval that FOCA would "sweep away hundreds of
anti-abortion laws [and] policies."

- Repealing the Mexico City Policy which will send tax payer dollars to other countries to fund abortions.

- Appoint pro-abortionist judges who will uphold these policies and undo the small amount of progress that we have made under W. Possibly pushing abortion forward for decades to come.

You simply cannot say that the next president will not impact abortion. In reality the next president could very well change the entire debate on abortion. Which way the debate goes may decide on your vote. This isn't a scare tactic. It's reality.

Naked Socialism

Obama is a socialist. Just listen.



If this is news to you, then you haven't been paying attention to what he says.

If you are okay with a socialist government then you are woefully ignorant of history and our constitution.

Obama and Biden over the last couple of weeks have been trying to avoid the word "socialism" because that is a buzz word and people don't like it. So they try and use other phrases, like 'spread the wealth around' and 'redistribution' (although this one has been pretty rare as well).

I've had several discussions with people that say, "well weren't the first Christians essentially communists, in the pure sense of the term?" and again, "Didn't Jesus promote socialism?"

Yes, in many respects both of those things are true. My wife and I had a discussion about this last night. The big difference is compulsion vs. desire. If I want to give to the poor then praise God. If I want to share all that I have with others, that's fantastic. The difference is the government TAKING from you to give to others. I'm completely in favor of Christians and churches being generous in trying to help those in need. That's one of the great things about the US. Historically speaking, Americans and Christian Americans specifically, have been the most generous people in history. That is something that we don't want to lose. If anything we want to encourage that as much as possible. A government that lets people keep their money so that they can afford to be generous, is the best way to do that.

The High Road or the Fraud Road, Which Would You Choose?

Having had a credit card number swiped and used fraudulently, I'm a little paranoid about my on line purchases. Retailers do their best to cover their backsides as well.

Wouldn't you think a politician would do the same?

McCain did, according to several people conducting "tests".

Obama... not so much. Check out this article on Obama's contribution system. This has been brought up several times and for months now. You would think Obama would have had his people look into it and fix the problem. But that might limit the funds coming in from... well... anybody in the world.

Considering that foreign contributions violate federal election laws, could this be construed as gross negligence? Of course, Obama didn't set the campaign website up, that was just his advisers and staff. To accuse him of wrong doing based on these 'associations' would just be ridiculous...

Is Joe the Plumber the Game Changer that McCain Needed?

I didn't think so at the time. I heard the sound bite on the radio and thought, "yeah, so what, Obama is a socialist... duh!"

Evidently this is news to some people.

Polls are narrowing.

Here is a good article on this whole thing and what people think of a political philosophy that wants to "spread the wealth around".

When your goal is to level the field by knocking the big guys down (OVER-tax the rich), everyone ends up down. The goal is not to punish the prosperous by to make everyone prosperous.

You don't have to try and even out the pie. You can make more pie and everybody gets more.

Sorry, I like food analogies. I wonder if they have some pumpkin pie in the cafeteria...

The Creepiest of the Creepies

Okay the videos of the little kids was bad. The military fatigued teenagers was worse.

This takes the cake.






***** Problems? ->If you are experiencing technical difficulties with the video, I do apologize. Evidently it is getting MASS traffic on YOUTube. A basic summary is the leader of the Nation of Islam, Minister Farrakhan (as Sen. Obama calls him) is giving a speech and claims that when Obama speaks you are hearing "the Messiah". Farrakhan is creepy enough as it is, but hearing his almost Vincent Price type voice calling Obama the Messiah makes my skin crawl.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now

ACORN. Community organizers. Ever heard of them? I hope so. You are paying for 40% of their budget. But don't worry, the Democrats call them the good guys. Helping people get registered to vote (because it is SO difficult these days). M. Malkin has a great piece on ACORN and the voter fraud that you are paying for.

Here are the highlights (bolds are my additions).

— Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected a large portion
of the 5,000 registration forms ACORN turned in after conducting registration
drives in the area all summer. Some vote canvassers had pulled names and
addresses from telephone books and forged signatures. According to local
reports, “large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the
same apparent handwriting style” and “apparently the organization’s canvassers
broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid.” The fake registrants included dead people and underage
kids.

On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to
11,000 voter applications were no good — tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may
have been stolen.

– Last month, Milwaukee, Wis., officials discovered at least seven
felons employed as voter registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated
group. They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter registration cards. The
state GOP accused ACORN of attempting to enroll dead, imprisoned or
imaginary people to voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN’s Milwaukee
chapter since the last election cycle.

– In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple
copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. According to the Miami
Herald, “One individual had 21 duplicate
applications.” Election officials had flagged ACORN’s negligent practices several months ago, but it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats that constitute a fifth of all new voters in that region.

– In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people received free van and bus
rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN
shuttling prospects to the polls. She told me she spoke with one
homeless woman who told her ACORN “told her who to vote for if she wanted a ‘better life,’ and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the
reasons this homeless woman didn’t want to register) because the government
probably wouldn’t be able to track her down. She was registering with a
temporary address.”

Ah! Corrupt Chicago politics on a grand scale. I actually heard one news report yesterday that of the multitude of fraudulent registrations was fake registrations from the entire Dallas Cowboy football team. Nice.

Corrupt campaign donations and fraudulent voter registration = Change You Should be Afraid Of.

Presidential debate numero dos

I caught part of it on the radio and part of it on T.V. In all I thought it was actually pretty uneventful. Both candidates did fairly pitifully. One person asked a question about the energy crisis and global warming. McCain had a decent answer about a focus on nuclear power. Obama responded with something like uh... wind... solar... 5 million new jobs. For being a big issue, it was an amazing poor answer. The same goes for McCain on Social Security and Medicare. His answer came down to, hey I'll reach across the aisle... I'll pull in the smartest people... I have no plan right now, but give me a shot and I'll have smart people come up with one. Weak at best. Obama ducked the same question, just so that he didn't have to explain that he didn't have an answer. Nice.

Oh, by the way, HATED McCain's mortgage bailout idea. Since when does the government have the power to re-negotiate private contracts?

Ugh. I'm watching the global economy slip into the abyss and Obama is rambling on about expanding the Peace Corps to reduce the burden on our military. Huh?

Really? These are the two best guys for this EXTREMELY important job?

Can we go back to the primaries real quick?

This scene came to mind a couple of times last night. Classic.

More creepy stuff

Does this kind of stuff bother anybody else?

Barack and Joe's buddies

A good clip.

This is kind of creepy

Talk about setting unrealistic expectations. This is what the soaring rhetoric has brought.

I'm sorry, I know it's suppose to be cute and touching and everything, but it's just kind of creepy.

SHOCKING!!! ML asks some big questions! Obviously not a Biden fan.

This video is pretty shocking. If anything it shows ML is not a Biden fan. He points out one of Biden's missteps and gets Obama a little flustered and irritated. I like it. This is actually some legit journalism that we haven't seen from NBC. Nice. Then he points out the fact that Biden was a bad pick compared to Palin or Hillary for that matter. Classic stuff. Go Matt!

Ducking the Issue

It happens quite a bit. Someone gets called out on something and instead of addressing the real issue, they get 'outraged' over something completely irrelevant.

For instance, the McCain campaign came out with a very effective ad linking Obama's advisers to the corrupt federal mortgage industry. Check it out.




The reaction from the Obama camp was... this ad is racist. That's right. Racist.

What? That makes no sense.

Playing the race card whenever they want to duck an issue. That's not change, that's the same old trick.

Ranting

If I hear or read this one more time I am going to vomit.

Pa-lease. I am amazed that the media is so amazed. I’m shocked that they don’t get it. I am even more shocked that instead of getting it, they blame RACISM for something that they clearly don’t understand.

This race isn’t close because the country is racist. I would dare say that racism has almost NOTHING to do with this whole thing. But for some reason, they just can’t conceive why the average American doesn’t want the most liberal senator in the country to be our next president. It just doesn’t make sense that people who adamantly oppose abortion wouldn’t want someone picking our next Supreme Court justices who thinks that abortion should be allowed at any point in a pregnancy, at any time, and for any reason. It is completely outrageous to think that when we are flirting with recession, two real wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the constant threat from Islamo-facists that the American public wouldn’t be falling all over themselves to put someone in the White House with absolutely NO executive, leadership, military, or even REAL WORLD experience. Someone who talks of endless government hand outs and almost 1 TRILLION dollars in new government spending and expansion. Someone who proudly extols that they would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq, limit our development of future weapons, and cut military spending, all while Iran is developing nuclear weapons and Russia is flirting with a return to its former dreams of global and regional domination. I mean come on, Obama is a good speaker, he’s handsome, he’s young, he’s not a white, upper class, conservative Republican. Why wouldn’t we all just fall down like a bunch of mindless drones at his feet? Didn’t we all get the memo? I mean, haven’t we checked the world polls? Don’t we know that everybody wants us to elect this guy? Don’t we know that Vladimir Putin is really pulling for Obama? Don’t we know that Hamas has endorsed him?

The only truly amazing thing about this race is that Obama is IN IT AT ALL! It is a very sad day when a party that represents approximately half of our country, nominates a man with no experience, no new ideas, no leadership skills and no real ability to think for himself.

It is also a sad day when the media stops reporting news and starts trying to make the news. They stop being objective and instead work to shape a story as they see fit.

Ugh.

I guess they are trying to avoid anymore 'unscripted' comments

After the lipstick and pig comments it looks like the campaign isn't taking any chances.

Obama is taking his addiction with him wherever he goes now. Ouch.

I guess even he is having trouble keeping up with his message.

Double ouch.

Change... really?

One of Senator Obama's biggest campaign promises and favorite lines on the trail is that he is going to "cut wasteful spending." Really?

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste a nonprofit, nonpartisan group just finished their analysis of the 2007 congressional record concerning earmarks, otherwise known as pork barrels, or "wasteful spending". Governor Palin isn't on the list because she is not a member of congress and so doesn't appropriate federal funds. McCain, Obama, and Biden are on the list.

In all fairness Senator McCain has also pledged to "cut wasteful spending," he has even gone so far as to pledge that he will veto any bill that has pork in it. Pretty bold pledge.

So, based on past history which is our only possible means of predicting future performance, who will keep their word?

Let see how they ranked.

The CCAGW broke it down by 2007 and then to be fair, they included a life time rating.

Obama - for 2007 - 10% Meaning that 90% of the time he voted for pork.
Biden - for 2007 - 0% Meaning that he voted for pork 100% of the time.
McCain - for 2007 - 100% You get the idea, he NEVER voted for pork in 2007.

Now for pretty much all of 2007, all of these candidates were running for president. So lifetime averages...

Obama - 18%
Biden - 22% (evidently 2007 was a very porky year for him)
McCain - 88%

So what do you think? Who really will "cut wasteful spending"?

H/T: MM

Obama puts foot in mouth... all the way up to his thigh

If you pay attention to the news today you are probably going to see headlines about Obama calling Sara Palin a pig. Well, watch below and see what you think.




I really don't think that Obama is dumb enough to be referring to Palin, despite my first reaction and the first reaction of everyone I mentioned this comment to. I'm sure the crowd at the event was drawing the same parallels as well given their reaction. But I don't believe that it was intentional. I DO believe, however, that this is what happens when Obama is off of the prompter.

Open mouth and insert foot, in this case all the way up to his thigh.

He's kind of like the Democratic version of Dan Quayle. With fewer accomplishments.

*****Update: Obama responded today and called this whole thing ridiculous (I agree), but I love his quote:

"These are serious times and they call for a serious debate...spare me all the
phony outrage. Spare me all the phony talk about change."

Amen! Spare us all your phony talk about change and don't lie to us about your desire to debate. You've shot down every offer from McCain to debate! Let's see what happens when you can't duck anymore.

This is more telling for entirely different reasons

I like this video for several reasons, none of which have anything to do with Obama saying that he has a "Muslim faith". Watch and then read.






A couple things here. Number one I'm really proud of George Stephanapoulos. This was actually some decent interviewing. He wasn't letting Obama up about this and he was really hammering him on it. Not about having Muslim faith, but about accusing McCain of bringing up Obama's religion (black liberation theology). McCain has been very above board on this. He has attacked Obama's positions and lack of experience, but not his radical, America hating, racist pastor. The second thing that I find very interesting is that once again Obama doesn't do well when he has to speak off the cuff. He's flustered like usual, but there is something else in this interview. He's frustrated. I think he sees the whole thing slipping away and he can't get it back. I think he also knows that his real problems are about to start with the debates. I think he is also doubting his decision not to at least ASK Hillary to be his VP. Most importantly I hope he is second guessing his decision to run right now before he could really establish any kind of record or accomplishments.

I think he's on the ropes and the polls aren't looking good.

Qualified?

The first thing that the talking heads started saying when McCain picked Palin was that she was very inexperienced and that by picking her McCain had taken the experience issue out of the race. I find this quite amusing. The more amusing thing is that Obama is getting questioned about whether he has more or less experience than Palin and his answer is REALLY amusing.

“My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees.
We've got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million
dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month,”
Obama responded.

That’s classic. Evidently running for president is Obama’s strongest example of the experience that he needs to BE the president. Now, maybe the Obama camp is different (NOT) than any other campaign I have ever heard or read about but usually the candidate is not the one running the campaign. That’s what campaign managers are for. The candidates have to focus on their speeches, their delivery, how to connect with the audience, come up to speed on current national and local issues so that they can speak intelligently about them. From his own defense, Obama’s campaign manager is better qualified to be president than he is! Ouch.

Also notice that he went back to her time as mayor for the comparison versus her time as governor. For an apples to apples comparison wouldn't he have to reference his time as an IL State Senator. I guess when he crunched the numbers of his campaign vs. her time as governor of Alaska, they didn't fall so well in his favor.

That’s not even addressing the HUGE, OBVIOUS point that he is having to defend his experience against the VP selection of his opponent. Of course, he isn’t running against the VP selection of McCain, he’s running against McCain.

I think this whole thing really takes Obama down a notch… or four.

I’ve never been a big McCain fan, but I have to hand it to the guy. Old or not, he has shown himself to be one BRILLIANT politician through this campaign.

Am I forgetting something?

I keep feeling like there is something I've forgotten, or overlooked... like maybe something that happened last night.

I think for sure that the McCain camp accomplished mission number one for this morning. They kicked Obama's speech OFF the top of EVERY major news site.

Well done.